Senic Inc.

Eun Su Yang

Jung Woo Choi

Jong Hwi Park

Jung-Gyu Kim

Kap-Ryeol Ku

Sang Ki Ko

Byung Kyu Jang

Jongmin Shim

Yeon Sik Lee

Myung-Ok Kyun

Jung Doo Seo

Il Hwan Yoo

A wafer manufacturing method, an epitaxial wafer manufacturing method, and a wafer and epitaxial wafer manufactured thereby, are provided. The wafer manufacturing method enables the manufacture of a wafer with a low density of micropipe defects and minimum numbers of particles and scratches. The epitaxial wafer manufacturing method enables the manufacture of an epitaxial wafer that has low densities of defects such as downfall, triangular, and carrot defects, exhibits excellent device characteristics, and improves the yield of devices.

Wafer manufacturing method, epitaxial wafer manufacturing method, and wafer and epitaxial wafer manufactured thereby

Example embodiments relate to a method of measurement, an apparatus for measurement, and an ingot growing system that measure properties relating an induction heating characteristic of a graphite article. The method of measurement comprises an arranging step of arranging a graphite article to the coil comprising a winded conducting wire; and a measuring step of applying power for measurement to the coil through means of measurement connected electronically to the coil, and measuring electromagnetic properties induced in the coil. The method of measurement and the like measure electromagnetic properties of graphite articles like an ingot growing container, and an insulating material, and provide data required for selecting so that further enhanced reproducibility for growth of an ingot can be secured.

Method of measuring a graphite article, apparatus for a measurement, and ingot growing system

A method of manufacturing a silicon carbide ingot, includes a preparing operation of adjusting internal space of a reactor in which silicon carbide raw materials and a seed crystal are disposed to have a high vacuum atmosphere, a proceeding operation of injecting an inert gas into the internal space, heating the internal space by moving a heater surrounding the reactor to induce the silicon carbide raw materials to sublimate, and growing the silicon carbide ingot on the seed crystal, and a cooling operation of cooling the temperature of the internal space to room temperature. The moving of the heater has a relative position which becomes more distant at a rate of 0.1 mm/hr to 0.48 mm/hr based on the seed crystal.

Method of manufacturing a silicon carbide ingot comprising moving a heater surrounding a reactor to induce silicon carbide raw materials to sublimate and growing the silicon carbide ingot on a seed crystal

A method of cleaning a wafer comprises: a scrubbing operation comprising treating a target wafer to be cleaned with a brush at a rotation rate of 200 rpm or less to prepare a brush cleaned wafer; and a cleaning operation comprising cleaning the brush cleaned wafer with a cleaning solution to prepare a cleaned bare wafer, wherein the cleaning operation comprises a first cleaning operation and a second cleaning operation sequentially.

Method of cleaning wafer and wafer with reduced impurities

A silicon carbide ingot producing method is provided. The method produces a silicon carbide ingot in which an internal space of a reactor is depressurized and heated to create a predetermined difference in temperature between upper and lower portions of the internal space. The method produces a silicon carbide ingot in which a plane of a seed crystal corresponding to the rear surface of the silicon carbide ingot is lost minimally. Additionally, the method produces a silicon carbide ingot with few defects and good crystal quality.

Method and system for producing silicon carbide ingot

A wafer having relaxation moduli different by 450 GPa or less, as determined by dynamic mechanical analysis, when loaded to 1 N and 18 N with a loading rate of 0.1 N/min at a temperature of 25&#xb0; C.

Silicon carbide ingot, wafer, method for producing a silicon carbide ingot, and method for manufacturing a wafer

A method for preparing a SiC ingot includes: disposing a raw material and a SiC seed crystal facing each other in a reactor having an internal space; subliming the raw material by controlling a temperature, a pressure, and an atmosphere of the internal space; growing the SiC ingot on the seed crystal; and collecting the SiC ingot after cooling the reactor. The wafer prepared from the ingot, which is prepared from the method, generates cracks when an impact is applied to a surface of the wafer, the impact is applied by an external impact source having mechanical energy, and a minimum value of the mechanical energy is 0.194 J to 0.475 J per unit area (cm).

Method for preparing silicon carbide wafer and silicon carbide wafer

An adhesive layer of seed crystal includes a graphitized adhesive layer, wherein the graphitized adhesive layer is prepared by heat-treating a pre-carbonized adhesive layer, and wherein the adhesive layer has Vr value of 28%/mmor more, and the Vr value is represented by Equation 1 below:  

Adhesive layer of seed crystal, method for preparing a laminate using the same, and method for preparing a wafer

A method for preparing a SiC ingot includes preparing a crucible assembly comprising a crucible body having an internal space, loading a raw material into the internal space of the crucible body and placing a plurality of SiC seed in the internal space of the crucible body at regular intervals spaced apart from the raw material, and growing the SiC ingot from the plurality of SiC seed by adjusting the internal space of the crucible body to a crystal growth atmosphere such that the raw material is vapor-transported and deposited to the plurality of SiC seed. A density of the crucible body may be 1.70 to 1.92 g/cm.

Method for preparing a SiC ingot and device for preparing a SiC ingot wherein electrical resistance of crucible body is 2.9 ohms or more

A silicon carbide ingot manufacturing method and a silicon carbide ingot manufacturing system are provided. The silicon carbide ingot manufacturing method and the silicon carbide ingot manufacturing system may change a temperature gradient depending on the growth of an ingot by implementing a guide which has a tilted angle to an external direction from the interior of a reactor, in an operation to grow an ingot during a silicon carbide ingot manufacturing process.

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